Texas........Big Sky Country Stationary Set

I think out of all my cards that I have recently posted this one is a favorite.  Living in Texas you find out that people are Texas bred and Texas proud.  This card is part a set of cards that I made for a stantionary set.  I have 11 cards and one box that I am going to decorate using some paint and some other things.

I have a few other states that I am going to try my hand at but if they don't work out the stanionary kit will be a Texas set of cards.

To make this I had to sort through a dingbat font and then I used my Silly to cut the shape in red, white and blue and then adding a star.  It actually isn't a hard project it just takes some time to make sure that you get the cuts correct since you don't want the flag to be incorrect which it can be if you don't pay attention.

So what I did was cut out red, white and blue texas shapes from there I used a ruler and craft knife to cut up the shapes.  From there I mounted everything to the white background and then added a star in the blue section as there is supposed to be.  I had a hard time trying to decide if I wanted the star to but shaped like the state or if I wanted it to look as it does above.  I picked option B and I must say it looks pretty darn awesome!

Now to move onto the box to put thsese in.

Penning Hello

I always do seem to love making "thinking of you" cards. I am especially in love with the Sentimentals cartridge for the Cricut, hence why it keeps showing up.

Mother's Day Cards Continued

Here is the card that I made for my own mother. She seemed tickled pink with the cards theme.

Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's Day Cards Part 2

This is probably the most favorite card that I have made for this Mother's Day, I used 'Beyond Birthdays' cartridge for the word 'Mum", Paper Lace cartridge for the lace design done to green. The dress form is from Tim Holtz's collection called Haberdashery CMS 105. On the inside, is two types of ribbon, along with my printer for the words on the inside. The paper I used is mostly SEI, as that is one of my favorite 'paper people '. There was one type of paper that I used, that I got at M's and low and behold when I decided I wanted to use more of it, they didn't have it. Of course! It's the G.C.D Chianti Collection, I used the metallic side of the paper for the silver on the card.

Mother's Day

So tomorrow is the big day, Mother's Day! And to all those mothers out there, I appreciate you. One day just doesn't seem enough for the amazing person that is 'mom'. Here is the card that I made for my sister. She is an elegant and sophisticated mother and sister.

For this card, I used one of my newest cartridge, Sentimentals. I've wanted this cartridge for quite a long time, and I was lucky that it was on clearance at M's for 24.99. I thought that was a good deal.

Administrative Professional Day

One more thing to add to the busy month of card making I had, Administrative Professional Day! I wasn't able to get the 4 that I had hoped to get, but I did manage two.

I got to use one of my new carts on one of them. Damask Decor, which by the way I'm loving. I can't wait to use it more. And I probably will soon enough since Mother's Day is just right around the corner. With a late Easter it's hard to believe that Mother's Day is May 8th. I have three cards to make for the women of the family. Gram, A and Ma...now to get started on those.

Yet another reason to create!

So yet another birthday has come up, this time around my niece's! She's the big 7 years old today. She seems stuck on Hello Kitty so I made her a card of that theme. Nothing too complex but I just love the way that it turned out. One of my better birthday cards. I got the CB's Happy Birthday embossing folder from a "surplus warehouse", they are calling themselves along with more refills for my Create-A-Sticker machine. All gifts but all very well received, and right on time since it seems we are entering the birthday season now. Anyway, I made two cards for my niece, one from me and one from her grandma. I think both turned out great. I'm getting better with my "machine".

Slide Show of photos

Here is a slide show of all the cards that I have made. It was much easier to have a slide show then to post each and every card I have made.

The Most Famous Reindeer of All Card

Using the "Christmas Cheer" cartridge for the Cricut, I cut out multiple reindeer in different sizes and linked them together. The card created a stir at the work place since there was disagreement as to how many reindeer there actually were. I got my information from Wikipedia, not the more reliable source but it was the quickest place to get my question answered.

Farm Fresh Produce Card

I made this card when I received the photo that I got from my sister on my newest niece, Paige Olivia. There was just something about the look on her face that made me think of her being "farm fresh".

Happy Birthday Gram!

As you can tell by the inside and outside of the card, this is a birthday card for my grandmother "Gram". She has always made her own clothes, or at least a majority of them and so when I saw the vintage pattern paper I had to get it and I had to use it on a ard for my Gram. I used my cricut to cut the letters out for Happy Birthday and then printed the sentiment on the inside on my printer. The pattern paper is from October Sky if I remember correctly and the paper on the inside is from the Windsor collection put out by SEI one of my most favorite paper vender.

Get Well Soon Card

I made this card for a co-worker that had shoulder surgery and I thought it would be nice to make her a card to let her know that we were thinking of her. I used my cricut machine for the words and my Sizzix SideKick for the corner pieces on the inside. For the Hedgehog, I used the Give A Hoot cartridge since it seemed to have the most animals cart that I had at the time. I wonder if she still has it?

Happy Birthday Cupcake Card

I made this card for my co-worker for his birthday. He's a quiet one and so most in the office didn't even realize it was his birthday until I told them it was. So I made him a card, using my cricut and the Rock Princess cartridge for the cupcake. His favorite color was blue so I taylored the cupcake's colors to reflect that. The webs in the corner were from a spider web stamp and I just put half of the stamp on the corners and then embossed it using blue glitter. The sentiment was something that went with the front so well.

Baby card

This is yet another card in my top five cards, that I just love. I think it might have something to do with the pram and the paper on the outside of the card. It was a fairly simple card to make, only requiring my "machine" for the making of the pram and "It's a Boy" tag line. The paper on the outside is made by Bo Bunny and when I attempted to find more of it, I was out of luck so I have been hoarding the little bit of that paper I have left for another card.

Birthday Card for Sister

I think that out of the few cards that I have made this one is a top five for me. I used elements that I wasn't very good at yet, and yet looking at it now; I must say it was an awesome looking card. Not sure how I plan to top this one for my sister, but I'm sure I will figure something out. Now to the nitty-gritty, how and what I used for the card. Well I used a black card for the base and then used my cricut to cut out the Happy Birthday on the front. I used a cling bird stamp on the front and used flocking as glitter to make it stand out. On the inside I used more flocking, a rubber stamp for the edges, a nice saying that I found and you can't tell from the photo but a teal shimmery cardstock on the inside.

Mother's Day Card

I absolutely love, love, love this card. I made it when I had limited tools to work with when making cards. I just used a blank black card and picked out a color that coordinated with the colors in the flower, which was supplied to my by my best friend, who has an eye for the photo shots. From there is was just a matter of picking out what to say on the outside and the inside, a bit of glitter in the center of the flowers on the inside, and ta-da! Card.

Did I say how much I love this card? LOL

Birthday Card for my Niece

I made this card for my niece, when she turned the big 6 years old. I used my Sizzix Sidekick for the butterflies and a swirl punch for the swirls. It was a back card, but I thought it turned out very nice.

Mother's Day Card for my sister

So I made this card for my sister for Mother's Day. I have this thing for birds so I used some cling stamps on the front and inside and put a quote that I found in there as well. I did so like that card.

Happy Birthday Card for Gram

This is a birthday card that I made for my Grandmother, for my mother. I used the Mickey font for the letters on the inside and the Celebrate with Florish cartridge for the outside. The paper on the inside is from SEI and I used Martha Stewart glitter on the letters inside.

Mermaid Notecard

I just fell in love with this image when I first saw it. So instead of making a card, in which the photo wouldnt fit, I made a large notecard. I mounted the image onto a yellow background and then mounted all of that to a sheet of watercolor paper on the back. I do love this image and this was actually one of my first drives into the card making world.